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Mission
AWARENESS. EDUCATION. DIAGNOSIS. TREATMENT.
The Psychophysiologic Disorders Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a mission to end the chronic pain epidemic and opioid crisis by advancing the awareness, diagnosis and treatment of neuroplastic symptoms that affect millions worldwide.
These real, physical symptoms (generated in the brain) include chronic pain, migraine, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue, pelvic pain, and other chronic or medically unexplained symptoms and are collectively referred to as Psychophysiologic Disorders. Watch this video to learn more!
Educating health professionals around the world is necessary to increase the number of practitioners who can diagnose and treat PPD. Education is also a key component of the recovery process, helping patients understand how the brain can learn and unlearn chronic pain or other symptoms.
Our evidence-based, biopsychosocial approach is safer, more affordable, and more effective than the usual (outdated) treatments recommended for chronic pain, chronic functional syndromes and medically unexplained symptoms.
With our focus on uncovering sources of stress, trauma and unrecognized emotion, patients are able to relieve and even CURE their symptoms without drugs, surgery, physical therapy or expensive alternative treatments.
Thus, our work is a vital step toward ending the chronic pain epidemic and opioid crisis.
About the Psychophysiologic Disorders Association (PPDA)
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The mission of the Psychophysiologic Disorders Association (PPDA) is to end the chronic pain epidemic and opioid crisis. Advancing the diagnosis and treatment of stress-induced medical conditions suffered by millions worldwide, our work provides a new approach to eliminate (not just manage) chronic pain, fibromyalgia, migraines, irritable bowel, chronic fatigue, pelvic pain and much more. Our evidence-based treatment approach is demonstrably safer, more affordable and more effective than traditional methods or alternative medicine.
Aside from supporting clinical pain and neuroscience research, we educate health professionals and the public about the mind-body connection and the brain's powerful ability to generate real physical symptoms. In doing so, we increase the number of professionals around the world who can better diagnose and treat chronic pain and medically unexplained symptoms, and provide resources to patients to recover from home without opioids.
Learn more: PPDAssociation.org
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Donate: PPDAssociation.networkforgood.com/projects/65131-end-chronic-pain
Credits:
David Clarke, MD - President & Co-Founder
Jessica Shahinian - Outreach Director
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Writer, Director, Producer, Video Editor - Jessica Shahinian
Co-Writer - David Clarke, MD
Videographer - Mikey Boyne
Production Assistants - Emily Weider, Blake Owen
Is Your Pain Or Illness Not Fully Explained Or Not Improving As Expected?
YOU’RE IN THE RIGHT PLACE.
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Disease Or Injury Are Not The Only Causes Of Pain Or Illness.
The brain can generate real symptoms when high levels of stress are not fully recognized. This occurs in many people with strong, healthy minds, affecting one in six adults and one in three primary care patients.
How does the brain do this? Research shows changes in the nerve pathways in the brain. These occur in people with stress, trauma, and repressed emotions that often are linked to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).
Fortunately, new research shows Pain Relief Psychology achieves far better relief of pain and illness than older approaches.
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The more questions to which you answer “Yes”, the more likely it is that the resources on this website will help you.
What Are Psychophysiologic Disorders?
Psychophysiologic disorders (PPD) are stress-related, brain-generated pain or illness. Even people who handle stress well can have PPD. This occurs when the stress is not fully recognized. The resulting symptoms are completely real. That is why the term we use is a blend of Psychology (the processes of the mind) and Physiology (the processes of the body).
Conditions such as chronic pain (not linked to damage or disease), migraine, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue, and pelvic pain syndromes are just a few of the dozens of very real conditions that can be caused or made worse by PPD.
The good news is that after years of clinical research, the new Pain Relief Psychology is relieving PPD, not merely helping people live with it. The keys to this new approach are:
Reassurance that the body is not damaged or diseased in PPD
Uncovering sources of stress that might not have been fully recognized
Successfully treating those stresses, some of which link to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)